U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 1897

United States v. Tennessee & C. R.

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · Decided April 20, 1897 · No. 538 · McCormick, Newman, Pardee

81 F. 544; 26 C.C.A. 499; 1897 U.S. App. LEXIS 1880

Counsel

Emmet Oneal and Frank White, for appellant., Oscar R. Hundley and Amos E. Goodhue, for appellee.

Cases that cite this one

2 later published cases cite this decision.

United States v. Washington Improvement & Development Co. (U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Washington 1911)
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. New Era Milling Co. (Kan. 1909)

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Opinion of the Court

PER CURIAM.

Considering that the Tennessee & Coosa Railroad Company had the right to sell, and did sell, the 120 sections of the land grant before the act of forfeiture, and that the forfeiture act of 1890 did not forfeit any portion of the land grant lying opposite to and coterminous with that portion of the railroad then completed and in operation, we find no error in the decree appealed from, and it is therefore affirmed.

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